Sleeping pill dependence is mostly caused by improper treatment. 85% of insomnia is caused by anxiety, depression, hyperthyroidism, hypertension and other diseases. To effectively treat insomnia, the cause must be identified in order to treat the cause. A recent survey shows that nearly 70% of physicians have suffered from insomnia in the past year, but surprisingly, many physicians are as clueless as the general public about how to take sleeping pills to treat insomnia! Because they do not know which type of sleeping pills to take and how to take them at the same time for allopathic treatment, some patients have become drug dependent and their condition is getting worse. In fact, there is no need for the public to be afraid of sleeping pills, as long as they are taken correctly, the benefits of sleeping pills to our health far outweigh the disadvantages. Memory loss due to insomnia far exceeds that of sleeping pills! How can you tell if you are suffering from insomnia? Not being able to sleep once in a while is not insomnia! To determine whether you suffer from insomnia, you can refer to the following indicators: if you go to bed and lie down for half an hour and still do not fall asleep, or sleep for less than 6 hours throughout the night, or wake up for more than half an hour in the middle, and at the same time obviously affect the next day’s work and study, appear irritable, lose things, etc., you can basically confirm the diagnosis of insomnia. “Why is the latter emphasized? The main reason is that people have great individual differences in sleep, there are a small number of people who only need to sleep for four or five hours a day, and the next day, as usual, the spirit of the situation will not affect their work and life, so it is not considered insomnia.” Among the people who have insomnia symptoms, half of them are occasional insomnia. Occasional insomnia is not terrible, but it is important to beware that many people with chronic insomnia develop from occasional insomnia. If you have insomnia for more than three days a week, and if this condition persists for more than a month, it is time to seek medical attention. But many patients do not take insomnia seriously at first, and often just go to the hospital and prescribe some sleeping pills. Only when the treatment becomes more and more serious do they go to see a specialist. Many people are even fearful of sleeping pills because of this, thinking that the side effects are too great and that they will become addicted to eating them. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of sleeping pills. Foreign studies have long shown that insomnia causes far more memory loss and decline than sleeping pills. Many times, people think that their memory problems are caused by taking sleeping pills, in fact, the main reason is that they are not properly treated, only treating the symptoms but not the root cause, resulting in more and more sleeping pills, insomnia more and more serious treatment, and finally there is a significant memory loss. 85% of insomnia is caused by other diseases! One study pointed out that 85% of insomnia is caused by other diseases. “At least half of insomnia patients are caused by psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression, 15% are caused by hyperthyroidism, coronary heart disease, and medication, and 10% are caused by apnea syndrome, restless legs syndrome, etc.” True primary insomnia accounts for only 15% of insomniacs, so treating insomnia is not something that can be solved with a few sleeping pills. The problem is that most non-specialists don’t know this and prescribe a few sleeping pills whenever a patient comes in complaining about the pain of insomnia. The result is that the patient’s insomnia is not always good enough to take the medicine to sleep, and once the medicine is stopped even worse than before, over time, a vicious circle will be formed, leading to drug dependence. How to cure insomnia many doctors “muncha-cha”! Recently introduced a Chinese physician sleep survey results show that nearly 70% of doctors in the past 12 months have had insomnia symptoms, of which 62.8% of doctors think their health problems may be related to sleep problems, 47.8% of doctors think their sleep problems affect the doctor-patient relationship. Although they all attach great importance to insomnia, the survey also shows that doctors themselves are “in the dark” about how they should take sleeping pills. Some doctors take Valium sleeping pills, some take non-Valium sleeping pills, and some take Chinese herbs or health supplements. And how to make these choices, many doctors are not based on the diagnosis of their own disease, but on the recommendation of friends. In addition, doctors have different approaches on how to treat insomnia. Nine percent of them prescribe sleeping pills only when patients request them, while others do not. In fact, sleeping pills have developed to include many types. In addition to the common benzodiazepine sleeping pills (i.e. Valium sleeping pills), there are also non-benzodiazepine sleeping pills. The trend abroad is that Valium sleeping pills have been phased out and replaced by non-benzodiazepine sleeping pills. “Valium sleeping pills are cheap, but they can also easily lead to medical dependence and rebound insomnia, while domestic non-benzodiazepine sleeping pills are at least 1 yuan per capsule, which is slightly more expensive, but the side effects are much smaller and can be taken as needed.” Insomnia patients do not need to talk about sleeping pills at all, if they are afraid of causing drug dependence, they can choose non-benzodiazepine sleeping pills. In addition, there are many drugs and supplements for insomnia on the market now, and many patients simply do not know what their situation is, so they go to the pharmacy and buy a bunch of them. Many of the so-called sleep-aiding supplements are actually placebos, and their effects are hard to guarantee. Each person’s condition is different, the treatment approach is also different, if the symptoms of insomnia, it is advisable to ask a specialist to prescribe the right medicine.